Improvement in knife and fork scourers



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Patented March 10, 1874.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Orr-Ion WILLIAM H. BOWERHAN, on BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN KNIFE AND FORK SCOURERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,348, dated March10, 1874; application filed February 7, 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. BOWER= HAN, of Brooklyn, in thecounty ofKings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvementin Knife and Fork Scourer and Polisher, of which the following is aspeci= fioation:

Figure 1 is a side view of my improved scourer and polisher, and Fig. 2is a top view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts;

My invention has for its object to furnish an improved instrument forscouring and polishing knives and forks, which will enable the work tobe done better and quicker than when the ordinary means are used. Theinvention consists in an improved instrument for scouring and polishingknives and forks, formed by the combination of the lead or othersoftmetal plate with the head of the handle, made with a flat lowerside, an inclined forward end, and a rounded projection upon its top, ashereinafter fully described.

A represents the handle, the forward part or head of which is made flatupon its lower side, with its forward end inclined upward, and with arounded projection upon the upper side of its forward end, as shown inFig. 1. B is a lead or other soft-metal plate, the rear end of which isbent upward, and is secured by a screw to the rear end of the head ofthe handle A; The lead plate 13 is fitted to the flat bottom, inclinedend, and rounded projection of the handle A, and its upper end issecured to the rear side of said rounded projection by a screw.

The scouring and polishing is done with scouring-brick by rubbing itupon the knives and forks with the instrument A B. The flat part of theinstrument is used for scouring and polishing the knives, and therounded top projection for the forks, its form enabling it to readilyenter and follow the curves of the forks, so as to operate upon theirentire surface. When thus used, the grains of brick dust embedthemselves in the lead plate B, and are thus held so as to operate moreet fectively upon the article to be scoured and polished.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new-and desire to secureby Letters Patent An improved instrument for scouring and polishingknives and forks, formed by the combination of the lead or othersoft-metal plate B with the head of the handle A, made with a flat lowerside, an inclined forwardend, and a rounded projection on its top,substan tially as herein shown and described.

WILLIAM H. BOWERHAN. Witnesses:

J AMLES T. GRAHAM, T. B. MosHER.

